PhotoTimeline
Simile Timeline is a FOSS AJAX/HTML/Javascript-Component, that implements a graphical timeline in the web browser. It allows to load XML/JSON-Data as "Event Sources", this data is then displayed in the timeline.
Quoting the docs:
Timeline allows web site creators to embed interactive timelines into their sites. It requires only that visitors have Javascript enabled. It's often referred to as "Google Maps" for time.
Possible Applications
I see a strong potential in the timeline as UI component:
- Explore your photos in a time-based manner and in correlation with calendar information (e.g. your holiday schedule as iCal + the pictures your took in one timeline)
- If you have photos from multiple photographers from the same event, the timeline can be useful as an overview tool (who took pictures at which period of the event?)
- A visual aid to correct EXIF timestamp offsets (you enter an offset and see how the thumbnails change their location)
